In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Observe the eyes, for they are the windows to her soul.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

How sweet war is to such as know it not.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.